esound-0.2.36 installs "esd.conf" in /var/tmp/portage/esound-0.2.36/image/etc/esd/. Patch for the ebuild follows (it simply removes the "sysconfdir=${D}/etc/esd" on make install, which probably was needed by previous versions but is no more). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 64218 [details, diff] esound-0.2.36--fix_esd.conf_install_path.patch
Thanks for reporting this. esound-0.2.36-r1 includes the fix.